atlbase.h
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Hey all,
I'm using VC++ Express so it doesn't come with the ATL libraries. But the tutorials I am following use it for the CA2W macro. I did some searching and it seems like it used to come with the Windows SDK for free. I downloaded the windows SDK and no atlbase.h that I could find. I was wondering if there was anywhere I could get the ATL, I've looked on the microsoft website and found nothing. Or maybe another way to do what CA2W does with out the ATL (if i understand correctly is converts a normal string to a wide string). Thanks.
Assuming you want to use a char* in a Direct3D function, you can use the 'A' version of function instead of converting to widechar. For example, use D3DXCreateTextureFromFileA to provide a char* filename.
I hope that's what you want. IIRC there's also a Win32 equivalent to CA2W, but I don't remember it offhand.
I hope that's what you want. IIRC there's also a Win32 equivalent to CA2W, but I don't remember it offhand.
CA2W is a wrapper around the Win32 MultiByteToWideChar-function, with some extra sugar that handles the memory allocation for you.
Or, if you don't need the Unicode support, you can turn that off (Project Properties -> Character Set) and drop the CA2W
Or, if you don't need the Unicode support, you can turn that off (Project Properties -> Character Set) and drop the CA2W
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Awesome. D3DXCreateTextureFromFileA() worked perfectly. Thanks for the replies both of you, much appreciated.
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